Monday Book Pick: Two Hawks From Earth
Two Hawks From Earth, by Philp Jose Farmer
This classic alternate history/alternate reality book is back in print, which is a good thing. During WWII, Army Air Corps bomber pilot Roger Two Hawks bails out of his shot up bomber and lands in a different reality, one also experiencing a world spanning war.
Ya, I know. It’s Tuesday.
Monday Book Pick: Forge of the Elders
Filed under: Baen Books, Monday Book Pick, Science Fiction
Forge of the Elders, by L. Neil Smith
In world where Communism won, a team from the World Soviet, in old American Space Shuttles, go to visit an asteroid called Eris. Predictably, chaos is the result, when they find other Earthly intelligent beings, from more Libertarian realities, have gotten there first.
Monday Book Pick: The Sackett Brand
The Sackett Brand by Louis L’Amour
Classic American Western literture by the master of the genre. First published in 1965, this tale of revenge still grabs the reader with L’Amour’s prose and love for the American West.
Monday Book Pick: Mad Science
Mad Science by Theodore Gray
Mad fun science experiments that hark back to the day when Chemistry sets had real chemicals in them! Great fun in here, and ya, more than a wee bit dangerous at times.
Monday Book Pick: Fur and Loafing in Yosemite
Fur and Loafing in Yosemite by Phil Frank
The story of a family of bears in Yosemite National Park and how they deal with nature, campers and the National Park Staff. Very funny stuff. If you have ever been to Yosemite National Park, you will recognize a lot of what he’s poking fun at.
Funny even if you haven’t been there!
Monday Book Pick: Space: The Free-Market Frontier
Space: The Free-Market Frontier by Edward L. Hudgins
The way to make space travel work is let the free market do it. It’s the way God and Robert Heinlein intended it to be.
Monday Book Pick: A Hymn Before Battle
Filed under: Baen Books, Monday Book Pick, Science Fiction
A Hymn Before Battle by John Ringo
John Ringo’s first novel, and the first in his Posleen War Series, also know as the Legacy of Aldenata series. A ripping good yarn. It has back stabbing alien “allies”, really bad bad aliens, and ends with a massive battle on an alien planet.
Ya, I know it’s Tuesday. I’m late.
Monday Book Pick – Altered Carbon
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
A delightful murder mystery wrapped in some really good SciFi. The hero, who really is not a nice man, finds himself back on Earth in a new body. A bit of suprise, since his last one was killed on another planet, involved in crimes that should have kept his consciousness in storage for quite a bit longer. It proceeds to get weird from there, but in a good way for the reader.
Monday Book Pick: Eye of the Storm
Eye of the Storm by John Ringo
The latest by best selling author John Ringo. It’s the next book in his Legacy of the Aldenata series. “Iron Mike” O’Neil is back, and boy is he pissed!
Monday Book Pick: The Android’s Dream
The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi
A fun romp through Interstellar politics, romance, advenure and the Android’s Dream, an electric-blue breed of sheep. Yup, that’s a big tip of the hat to Philip K. Dick. There is also a big jab made a religion based on the rantings of a SF writer of “modest talents.”